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Ironically, the definition of the term “definition essay” is not very specific.  Definition essays are short pieces of writing on a particular topic.  However, not every essay on a topic can be properly labeled a definition essay.  Instead, a definition essay is an attempt to describe the topic thoroughly enough for the reader to understand it very well and might be compared to an encyclopedia entry for the topic.  Any of our example essays could provide a good start on a definition essay about the topic.  However, we have collected a sample of our best definition essays and included them below to help you explore the genre.  

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Senior leadership change in comprehensive university environments
¶ … University Environment Leadership Change
Paper Undergraduate
Developing an ethics code and system of inquiry for the University of Houston
System of Inquiry for the University of Houston
Paper Masters
Saussure's theory of signs in Alice Munro's "Hold Me Fast"
Every aspect of communication with other individuals has to do with semiotics, but our actions also have to do with semiotics. We need signs to function in our world, however, as Ryan (42) notes in Literary Theory: A…
Essay Doctorate
Talent management transformation at Whirlpool Corporation during global expansion
Discuss what factors emerged at Whirlpool that impacted its talent needs
Paper Doctorate
Ethical issues in the collection and release of personally identifiable information
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is any sort of information that identifies a person and that institutions and the government use for private and domestic concerns. The ethical problem inherent in PII is that unscrupulous individuals can abuse the concept robbing a person of their personal identity or, in other ways, using the PII to force the person to cooperate. It is extremely important, therefore, to safeguard the person's PII and the more vulnerable the individual the more important protection of PII becomes. Laws have been passed for PII protection but breaches persist. Recommendations, therefore, include passage of a new category of PII (PII 2.0) that more strictly defines PII and divides it into two categories enabling relevant institutions to beater identify the individual and to choose which data to include and which to exclude. These bits of data can also be placed along a spectrum. National and logistical matters necessitate that we be uniquely identified. Doing this can, however, be occasionally, harmful. Steps have been, and can continue to be taken, to guarantee a person's safety.
Paper Doctorate
Joint interoperability in United States Armed Forces operations
Seeking to Define and Understand Joint Interoperability
Research Paper Doctorate
Equality of arms in international tribunals and human rights
Since the beginning of the concept of an organized system of justice and law, as well as the public interest, the question of individual rights in relation to the need for the maintenance of peace and order has been…
Research Paper Doctorate
Comparing the Macheteros and Tupamaros as domestic terrorist organizations
¶ … shifting seas of global social consciousness and worldwide political hierarchy have only recently brought the word 'terrorism' to the quotidian mind of Americans, it has long enjoyed a cemented place in the…
Research Paper Doctorate
Reproductive rights for HIV-positive women: ethics and complexity
Many studies attest to the fact that women and children have become the epicenter of the HIV / AIDS epidemic in the world. "A decade ago, women and children seemed to be on the periphery of the AIDS epidemic...Today...
Research Paper Doctorate
Wole Soyinka's defense of African literature and cultural authenticity
The book Myth, Literature, and the African World, was published in 1976, twenty years before the author, Wole Soyinka, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.